Well, I remember our first CL victory in 1963 which was the second held in its history and heard it on the radio with a bunch of friends in a barbershop where we used to hang out to spend time together. Italian TV only had two channels, RAI ONE and RAI TWO, that broadcast 8 or 9 hours a day and more on weekends. At the time the "Coppa dei Campioni" was limited to only clubs that won their leagues and wasn't as popular as it is today, aired in the old country at 3PM and wasn't televised.
I moved to the States in "66 so don't know when it was first on TV, but they showed some highlights a couple of days later filmed by some foreign channel, so I got to watch the goals scored. The radio announcer was a guy named Nicolo` Carosio who had also been the voice in our World Cup victories in 1934 and 1938 under Mussolini who used the titles as propaganda to boast of our superiority in sports and fitness. Carosio was excellent, very descriptive, somewhat poetic, and loved by fans.
Being old sucks, (though I don't feel it), but the positives are the many wonderful memories that it provides, and 62 years later I still remember the group of friends I spent that glorious afternoon with, some no longer with us and the rest still friends that I see every time I visit Italy, (last in 2023).
No parent should have to bury their children.
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